I'm sorry if you felt it an insult, but it is a legitimate concern . The reason the "common scripts" you found out there aren't working is not a default of Drupal, but rather a feature. That feature helps reduce spam, and you are asking the development list of Drupal how to circumvent this highly valuable feature. Perhaps your questions would be better raised in the support area of Drupal.org or support mailing list. Jamie Holly M. Fioretti wrote:
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 08:57:17 AM -0500, Jamie Holly wrote:
Request the node/add/{node-type}page. Grep out all the input elements along with their default values...
OK, thanks.
If you are doing this for other sites, then I can only assume it's because they are asking you to (if not then that opens up a whole new debate on ethics).
Ethics? Are you serious? I have several **real** accounts on several, independent Drupal-based websites. **real** meaning "I'm a real, honest, regularly registered and approved user on all those websites".
I must or want add content to all those websites more or less regularly, say several times a week. And in at least one case I also need to put online as nodes (without, I repeat, any possibility to modify the server setup) lots of already existing text files. And I just happen to find a much smarter and more efficient use of my time to type in my full-screen, favourite, heavily customized text-editor and then launch some "publish-to-drupal-website" script than log in to cut-and-paste stuff or click drop-down menus every time. Period.
What's wrong with such a wish? Above all, what's ethic got to do with this? The only issue may be, in general, if this lessened the income from web ads of a site. Rest assured this is not an issue for any of the websites where I need to do this. I perfectly know how bad it is for websites, I even publicly wrote about it 7 years ago (http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5623). So don't worry, ethics is perfectly safe here.
Incidentally, this is not the first, more or less explicit "why are you asking us help on how to spam drupal websites" kind of answer I've got in this thread, and it's starting to be offensive, both for me and for you Drupal developers. I write online for a living: would I be so idiot to mess my reputation in such a way? Even if I didn't write, if I were a spammer, would I be so idiot to come here with my real name to ask? If I were a spammer I would have already made all of this work without ****ever**** asking in public, because I'd have had a much more powerful incentive to spend days and nights making spambots work without letting everybody know about it.
If that's the case then can't you simple ask them to install a module for this, even if it's as simple as activating the BlogAPI module?
because some of those websites don't give a damn if I add content via browser, voodoo spells or anything in between, but simply won't change their default configuration for me. Sure, this is my problem only, it's just that it's tiring to repeat it many times. No problem, however.
Marco